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German agricultural officials are said to have warned Britain they may stop exports to avoid port queues in the event of a no-deal Brexit (Picture: Getty Images)

Germany has warned food shipments to the UK may be halted to avoid border queues in the event of a no-deal Brexit, it has been reported.

The warning is believed to have been issued during recent talks between agricultural officials and the Foreign Office.

According to Buzzfeed, a diplomatic source relayed the German delegation’s frustration at the progress of Brexit discussions and said food businesses ‘expected’ huge border delays.

Those coupled with potential tariff rises could force food producers elsewhere, they are said to have cautioned.

The supposed warning will do little to quell fears of food shortages in the aftermath of any no-deal Brexit scenario.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the former arrives at the Chancellery earlier this week (Picture: Getty Images)

Britain currently gets 30 per cent of its food from the EU, including almost 40 per cent of fruit and veg.

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Germany is one of our biggest exporters, shipping nearly £640 million worth of meat and a similar amount of greens.

A spokesman for the country’s agriculture ministry told Buzzfeed that EU member states wanted to avoid ‘a hard Brexit’ and have been taking the threat of it ‘very seriously for a very long time now’.

They added that the ‘deep-sea fishery’, ‘meat’, and ‘dairy’ sectors would be affected but stressed the ‘close economic ties to the UK should remain in force’ and ‘chaos should be avoided as far as possible’.